Hikigaya doesn't want to be a force of strength

"You don't seem to care about our D class at all? Your performance in the last exam was even worse than ours."

"Because your abilities are not worth my attention, that's all." Katsuragi Kōhei answered honestly, "Unless one day, you can be promoted from D class to C class, then I might give you a second look, but unfortunately, now you are still far away from surpassing C class, or you can't even see the possibility."

"you……"

Katsuragi's words undoubtedly caused great stimulation to Horikita Suzune.

The latter was a stubborn and arrogant person, and could not accept other people's contemptuous attitude.

If it weren't for the school rules, she would have probably been ready to use physical means to "persuade" Katsuragi by now.

Even if he didn't take direct action, Horikita's anger had already accumulated to the limit.

Hikigaya naturally had no intention of stopping this, he even hoped that Horikita and Katsuragi would fight directly so that his presence could be further erased.

However, what he hoped for did not happen, because a figure suddenly inserted itself between Horikita and Katsuragi.

"If a conflict breaks out before the exam, you might get points deducted."

Long pink hair and pretty face.

The leader of Class B, Ichinose Honami, suddenly appeared on the scene and successfully turned the originally tense situation around with her special control temperament.

After all, neither Katsuragi nor Horikita intended to make too many enemies before the exam, especially Class B, who seemed to have a neutral attitude.

However, Horikita continued to speak with undiminished momentum: "I will not have a conflict with him, but if you can erase the fact that Class D is looked down upon before you speak, I will welcome it even more."

"Ahaha, it seems I'm a bit of a pushover." Ichinose was very good-natured and naturally ignored the temper in Horikita's words. "For you who belong to Class D, it seems that you can't accept being treated rudely. There are also many people in our Class B who look down on Class D. Although I try my best to let them control their attitude, not everyone can control their emotions after all."

Ichinose seemed to be biased towards Horikita, but everyone soon realized that this was not the case.

Because the next second, she slowly spoke in a slightly offensive tone: "However, to be honest, I think this is just Class D's own fault. After all, it is often their own actions that influence other people's views. Class D's incompetent performance has always caused others to look down on them. This is an indisputable fact. If you don't want to be looked down upon, instead of looking for charity, why not rely on your own strength to gain the respect of other class members?"

"..."

Ichinose's overly sharp words made Horikita completely unable to make any effective response.

The gap between the class leaders was vividly displayed at this moment.

As the leader of Class B, Ichinose's abilities are far more than the gentle girl she appears to be. The reason she is able to take the leadership position is obviously because she possesses sharp claws that ordinary people do not possess.

On this point, Horikita Suzune is clearly still far from it.

Horikita herself also realized this during the short conversation. She took a deep breath, controlled her emotions that were about to burst out, and slowly replied: "Thank you for your advice. Class D will use practical actions to impress other classes in the future."

"Well, this is the right way to do it."

Ichinose smiled. Her method was very clever. She recognized and criticized both Class A and Class D, the two conflicting parties, and easily resolved the crisis that might have broken out without affecting her own evaluation.

No wonder Class B is still the most united class in the first grade. With a leader like Ichinose in charge, many problems that exist in Class D will never happen in Class B.

However, while Ichinose praises Horikita's attitude, Katsuragi has a different opinion.

"Like a mayfly trying to shake a tree, if an ant forces itself to make foolish ambitions that are not in line with its own strength, it will only be devoured by its obsession in the end."

"What did you say?" Katsuragi's poor evaluation made Horikita Suzune angry again, "Do you think you are special in Class A? Then why did you only get 0 points in the last exam? In fact, there is no difference between Class D and Class A. The school just made an arbitrary judgment and divided the classes."

"..."

Horikita's sharp tongue was still as powerful as ever, and one sentence almost broke Katsuragi Kōhei's defense.

The anger on both sides had already erupted before the exam even started, so Hikigaya didn't dare to say a word. He just squatted aside and tried to reduce his presence.

Faced with this kind of fight between gods, it would be better for a fragile and innocent guinea pig like him not to interrupt.

However, although he himself did not want to be involved in this kind of turmoil, the turmoil itself still unconsciously hit him.

Ichinose, who had just stopped Katsuragi and Horikita from arguing, found that the situation was still out of control, so he simply gave up on influencing the scene and secretly ran to Hikigaya.

"Oh my, I didn't expect to be in the same group with you, Hikigaya-san. What an unexpected coincidence."

"Uh, yes, what a coincidence..."

Hello, you've already looked at the list yesterday, right?

They knew that they would be in the same group, yet they came over and said "What a coincidence". Is this some kind of boring joke?

Unable to figure out Ichinose Honami's purpose, Hikigaya could only try his best to pretend that he didn't care.

The topic seemed to be ending just as it had begun, or rather, Hikigaya wanted it to end.

But Ichinose continued to speak on his own: "Our group feels really amazing. Everyone is so talented. I have no idea how it will turn out."

"Yeah, you're all great."

Katsuragi, Ichinose, Horikita, these monsters are grouped together. It is impossible for this group not to have their brains beaten out.

And Ichinose seemed dissatisfied with Hikigaya's answer.

She hesitated for a moment, then suddenly changed the subject: "Come to think of it, I invited you, Hikigaya-san, to the private room the night before last, right? Why didn't you come?"

"!!"

On the other hand, Hikigaya was suddenly startled and felt the helplessness of a disaster that had finally arrived.

Chapter 356: Ichinose is indeed a true angel!

Hikigaya had never expected that Ichinose would suddenly ask him about what happened the night before.

At that time, after receiving the invitation from the other party, Hikigaya took the initiative to choose to cancel the invitation, found another place to stay, and did not attend.

The reason is that as a lone ranger, he is not very willing to establish any connection with others. Rather than being noticed and valued, he would rather cut off possible relationships in advance.

In this regard, his approach is somewhat similar to that of Horikita Suzune.

After the exam on the uninhabited island, many students in Class D have recognized and admired Horikita, and many girls even took the initiative to get closer to Horikita Suzune.

However, Horikita herself did not accept this sudden enthusiasm and unilaterally broke all the friendship flags coming towards her.

In a sense, this is also a commonality among lone rangers. They are not willing to have their lives interfered with by others.

Unfortunately, compared to Horikita Suzune, Hikigaya has certain hardware deficiencies, which results in Horikita generally not angering other people when she rejects them. Instead, she makes people feel a little cool and cute.

If a guy like Hikigaya actively rejects others, there is a high probability that the other party will never have any contact with him in his life.

In short, from the moment Hikigaya gave up the invitation, he had already anticipated that his behavior would cause dissatisfaction among Ichinose and others.

He did that deliberately knowing that it would cause such dissatisfaction.

After all, in his original plan, when Ichinose found out that he was not invited to attend, he would definitely be very angry at his pigeon-like behavior and might even cut off all ties with him.

In this way, there will be no more unnecessary contacts between the two sides, messy relationships will not continue to occur, and everything will return to the daily routine of the Mavericks.

The only side effect might be that it would make Ichinose feel dissatisfied and disgusted with himself.

But there are so many people in this world who hate themselves.

Hikigaya doesn't care about people who hate him further +1.

However, Hikigaya's carefully crafted and perfect plan did not develop as he expected in the end. Even though Ichinose was stood up by him, she still came to chat with him.

Hikigaya had no idea what the other party's mentality was in coming to him.

Could it be that Miss Ichinose is a masochist?

As confusion and doubt spread throughout his colleagues' hearts, Hikigaya had a frozen expression and was completely unable to come up with any effective response.

There was no way. He was really not good at interpersonal communication. He felt even more tired than if he didn't open Fengling Yueying and played soul-like games all day long.

On the other side, Ichinose saw his look and smiled sympathetically: "Ahaha, Hikigaya-san, you must have been delayed by something, right? It's okay, I understand!"

"This……"

Unexpectedly, Ichinose did not blame him. Hikigaya finally understood why the other party came to talk to him.

Most people would definitely blame him for being stood up by a guy like me...

But Ichinose didn't do that.

Is this child really an angel?

Oh no, I started to feel guilty for some reason.

Normally, Hikigaya's iron heart, which had been honed since elementary and junior high school, rarely showed meaningless emotions like guilt.

Even if he confessed to someone on the spot and was rejected at the speed of light, he would not feel any waves in his heart.

However, this is just the hardness of his closed inner self, which cannot be penetrated by knives, guns, sticks or clubs. But what he fears most is not such sharp weapons, but unreasonable tenderness.

It can be said that he is soft-hearted and does not respond to hardship.

Therefore, once the other party does not treat him with a cold attitude, but is instead tolerant and considerate of him, Hikigaya will rarely feel a sense of self-loathing.

At this moment, facing his deliberate refusal to accept the invitation, Ichinose was not angry at all, but was gentle and considerate of his attitude, which made him fall into this state of self-loathing.

Helplessly, he could only sigh and said, "Sorry, I didn't mean it... No, I think I did it on purpose?"

Feeling that every aspect of his life was twisted, Hikigaya looked silently in the direction of Ichinose.

He thought the other party would be angry, or at least dissatisfied with his attitude.

But Ichinose smiled calmly and said, "It seems that I still haven't gained your trust, Hikigaya-san. There's nothing I can do about it... But believe me, Hikigaya-san, I will definitely work hard to gain your trust!"

"Did the angel really appear?"

"Angel?"

Ichinose looked at the shocked Hikigaya in confusion.

She was about to say something when she suddenly felt a strange sense of oppression from behind.

At the same time, Horikita Suzune and Katsuragi Kōhei, who were originally confronting each other, also noticed something and looked in a direction far away in the corridor.

At this time, the red-haired young man and the silver-haired girl were walking slowly towards them from a distance. They seemed to be strongly asserting their aura while stepping hard on the floor as they slowly walked towards them from a distance.

"Haha, there really are quite a lot of minions gathered here, let me join in too."

"…Is it Ryuen?"

Katsuragi's tone was calm, but his expression became a little stern.

Ichinose and Horikita also tensed their expressions upon seeing this.

There is no doubt that the leader of Class C, Ryuen Sho, has influenced all the classes in the first grade with his reputation in the past six months.

Even the originally confident Class A, after experiencing the disastrous defeat on the uninhabited island, had completely realized how difficult it was to provoke Ryuen Sho, and became very wary of him.

At this moment, Ryuen Sho was walking towards them from a distance with Shiina Hiyori and two members of Class C. He looked very similar to Katsuragi, but the situation was completely different.

Compared to Katsuragi and Class A students who are of more equal status, Ryuen's attitude towards leading Class C members is more like that of a king and his retainers. The retainers look very fearful and behave quietly and submissively.

Only Shiina Hiyori's attitude was relatively calm, but he just followed silently without saying anything.

"Ryuen-san, you're really slow."

Even when facing Ryuen Sho, Ichinose still did not back down and showed the momentum that a leader of Class B should have.

Ryuen Sho responded silently: "The rules don't say there will be any problems if you come late, or if you come early, can you perform an entertainment show for me? How about the theme of Beauty and the Beast?"

Ryuuen looked alternately at Ichinose and Katsuragi, then chuckled quietly.

Facing Ryuuen's provocation, neither Katsuragi nor Ichinose responded, revealing cold expressions.

Horikita Suzune, who was ignored, found it hard to accept the other party's contempt for her, and said indifferently: "Humph, I thought this group was full of students with high academic ability, but when I saw someone like you appear here, I knew that this might not be the case."

"Academic ability? How boring... That kind of thing has no value." Ryuen Sho responded to Horikita's words coldly, and his attitude was so contemptuous that it was obvious to everyone.

"That's a really regrettable statement." Horikita Suzune continued to attack, "Whether you are good at academics or not is the most important factor that affects your future. You should know that everyone says that Japan is a society that relies on academic qualifications, right?"

"Ha ha ha ha ha……"

Ryuen Sho laughed heartily at Horikita's words.

What do you think of what this idiot said? --- Ryuuen was dumbfounded and told his followers with his body language, and they mechanically agreed.

Faced with Ryuuen's almost humiliating attitude, Horikita was completely furious and could not accept the other party looking down on him like that.

But she really couldn't do anything to fight back.

Not to mention the low status of Class D in the first grade, which is not taken seriously by other classes, even Horikita himself is not actually a leader of Class 1.